What can linked data do for archives? Gloria Gonzalez, Elizabeth Russey Roke, & Mark A. MAtienzo

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1 What can linked data do for archives? Gloria Gonzalez, Elizabeth Russey Roke, & Mark A. MAtienzo

2 What is Linked Data?

3 structured, machine actionable data with an open license for sharing & reuse

4 What s a triple? object predicate subject

5 What s a triple? Susan Sontag created

6 What s a triple? Susan Sontag is the creator of

7 Read by humans Read by machines

8 human readable

9 Machine readable

10 Archivists can create local connections with Linked Data

11 Local Connections

12 Archivists can connect with communities and across networks with linked data

13 Network Connections

14 Community Connections Dallas Public Library s summer 2018 partnership with KERA public TV

15 Archivists can Define archives as places with linked data

16 Archives as places

17 Schema.org

18 Schema.org Created in 2011 by Bing, Google, and Yahoo to address structured data format proliferation for search engines Provides single schema across range of topics: people, creative works, places, etc. (598 types, 862 properties) Used on 1+ billion web pages & many popular websites Provides extension mechanism for both Schema.org-hosted and external extensions Expressible as JSON-LD, RDFa, and Microdata

21 Example RDFa Schema.org Markup: Book

22 Schema for Finding Aids?

23 Example RDFa Schema.org Markup: Finding Aid

24 Example RDFa Schema.org Markup: Finding Aid

25 Archives and Linked Data Interest Group

26 Goals Evaluate existing models Investigate minimally viable ways to publish linked data about archives Development of mappings from archival description standards to linked data models Production of archival description as linked data directly from archives management systems

27 Schema Architypes

28 Mapping description to Schema.org (1)

29 Mapping description to Schema.org (2)

{ "url": "http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/1038", "@context": "http://schema.

30 { "url": " " ["Collection", "ArchiveComponent"], "name": "Houston Folk Music collection", "inlanguage": "EN", "holdingarchive": { "@type": ["Archive", "LocalBusiness"], "name": "Woodson Research Center Special Collections & Archives", "address": "Fondren Library, Rice University, 6100 Main, Houston, TX 77005", "url": " }, "creator": [ { "@type": "person", "name": "Townes Van Zandt", "@id": " }, { "@type": "person", "name": "Guy Clark", "@id": " }, { "@type": "person", "name": "Vince Bell", "@id": " }, { "@type": "person", "name": "Lyle Lovett", "@id": " } ], "description": [ "This collection contains items documenting the Houston Folk music scene from the 1970s-1980s.", "During the 1960s-1980s, Houston, TX had a vibrant folk scene. Local musicians and those from other parts of Texas and the U.S. socialized and played at a variety of music establishments around the city, including Anderson Fair Retail Restaurant, Sand Mountain Coffeehouse, Liberty Hall, The Old Quarter, Theodore's and Corky's. This scene spawned many musicians, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Robert Earl Keen, Nanci Griffith, Lynn Langham, Wrecks Bell, Eric Taylor, John Vandiver, Danny Everitt, Vince Bell, Richard Dobson, Don Sanders, Wheatfield/St. Elmo's Fire, Dogtooth Violet, Bill Cade, Lyle Lovett, and many more." ], "datecreated": " ", "accessconditions": [ "This material is open for research.", "Permission to publish from this material must be obtained from the specific copyright owner." ], "ownershipinfo": "Albums donated by Brendan Doss, III. Townes Van Zandt reel donated by Craig Calvert." } Example

31 What's Next? What can we do with this?

32 Thank You! Resources Acknowledgements The Archives and Linked Data Interest Group: Archives and Linked Data Interest Group: W3C Schema Architypes Community Group: R.V. Guha, D. Brickley, and S. Macbeth, Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web. ACM Queue 13(9), M. Matienzo, E.R. Roke, and S. Carlson, Creating a Linked Data-Friendly Metadata Application Profile for Archival Description. DCMI Scott Carlson (Rice University) Mark Custer (Yale University) Patrick Galligan (Rockefeller Archives Center) Dan Gillean (Artefactual Systems) Gloria Gonzalez (Zepheira) Maggie Hughes (UCLA) Mark Matienzo (Stanford University) Dave Mayo (Harvard University) Laney McGlohon (LYRASIS/ArchivesSpace) Evelyn McLellan (Artefactual Systems) Katy Rawdon (Temple University) Elizabeth Russey Roke (Emory University) Ruth Kitchin Tillman (Penn State)

Creating a Linked Data-Friendly Metadata Application Profile for Archival Description Poster

Creating a Linked Data-Friendly Metadata Application Profile for Archival Description Poster Matienzo, Mark A. Stanford University, U.S.A. matienzo@stanford.edu Roke, Elizabeth Russey Emory University,